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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2016 Jan 4;126(8):1946–1951. doi: 10.1002/lary.25826

Table 1.

Microbial culture results and positive labeling

Specimen Positive IHF labeling Positive eDNA labeling Culture Results
1 - - No growth
2 - - No growth
3 + + No growth
4 + + Alicaligenes faecalis, Achromobacter xylosoxidans
5 + + Alicaligenes faecalis, Achromobacter xylosoxidans
6 + + Haemophilus influenzae
7 + + Escherichia coli
8 + + Moraxella catarrhalis
9 - + Haemophilus influenzae
10 + + Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
11 + + Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Streptococcus pneumoniae
12 - - Yeast
13 - - Corynebacterium
14 + + Pseudomonas aeruginosa
15 - - Mixed bacteria/Normal flora